violence plagues the biggest cities, but it also plagues the smallest towns. it claims the lives of americans of different ages and different races, and it's tied together by the fact that these young people had dreams and had futures that were cut tragically short. and when there is an extraordinarily heartbreaking tragedy like the one we saw, there is always an outcry immediately after for action. and there is talk of new reforms, and there is talk of new legislation. and too often those efforts are defeated by politics and by lobbying and eventually by the pull of our collective attention elsewhere. but what i said in the wake of tucson was, we were going to stay on this persistently. >> i also share your belief that weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don't belong on our streets. and so what i'm trying to do is to get a broader conversation about how do we reduce the violence generally? part of it is seeing if we can get an assault weapons ban reintroduced. but part of it is also looking at other sources of the violence. because, frankl